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My First True Lucid Dream

 Hello. C J here. I wasn’t expecting an update here today but I finally had a real actual lucid dream last night. I’ve been practising with the waking dream techniques in the new Quantum boon for a while. I’ve of course known these techniques in Quantum longer than that book has been out because I had to plan and write the book while already knowing them. But I’ve never had a lucid dream while fully asleep.

So I was lying down last night and I just closed my eyes and then I found myself in Ascala. I was in a backyard lined with wood fences, the good kind you can’t see through. It was night time and I looked up and went to myself ‘wow, Ascala has different stars than we do.’ I walked into the house. There in the nice townhouse with pale walls like in some of my art was one of my main fursona, Zed. I said hi to Zed. Of course, we already knew each other. Then I realized my nose was also wolf shaped.

All of this was done fully awake. I keep forgetting to mention it but I have a perfect memory. I don’t know whether the term perfect or eidetic is more accurate but me personally I like both. This whole sequence of events will be in my eidetic memory forever. Zed was wearing a red leather jacket and a while undershirt, both things I can draw. I waved to Zed as I went out the front door. I wanted to see if I could fly.

I could. So here’s me, above the cloud line, looking down at the city I tell stories about, and I’m flying and I’m also fully awake. It was bright and vivid in the way a good piece of art is. You may be wondering, how do I know I’m awake now? I just know. It’s a me thing. Somehow no matter what I always know which way is North. It’s a spiritual thing. I guess dreams have a different North. That went well. Time for more caffeine.

C J Mcpherson

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